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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 35

GRATUITY SCALE.
SIX MONTHS' HARD-LABOUR SENTENCE.
s. d.
1st Period, Probation Class-91 days
Nil.
2nd Period, Third Class-30 days at 8 marks = 240
marks at 1d. per 20
1 0
3rd Period, Second Class-30 days at 8 marks = 240
marks at 1½d. per 20
1 6
4th Period, First Class-Balance at 8 marks=
marks at 2d. per 20
...

TWELVE MONTHS' HARD-LABOUR SENTENCE.
s. d.
1st Quarter, Probation Class-91 days
Nil.
2nd Quarter, Third Class-91 days at 8 marks = 728
marks at 1d. per 20
3 0
3rd Quarter, Second Class-91 days at 8 marks = 728
marks at 1½d. per 20
4 6
4th Quarter, First Class-Balance at 8 marks =
marks at 2½d. per 20
...

EIGHTEEN MONTHS' HARD-LABOUR SENTENCE.
s. d.
1st Quarter, Probation Class-137 days
Nil.
2nd Quarter, Third Class-137 days at 8 marks = 1,096
marks at 1d. per 20
4 7
3rd Quarter, Second Class-137 days at 8 marks = 1,096
marks at 1½d. per 20
6 10
4th Quarter, First Class-Balance at 8 marks =
marks at 2d. per 20
...

TWO YEARS' HARD-LABOUR SENTENCE.
s. d.
1st Quarter, Probation Class-182 days
Nil.
2nd Quarter, Third Class-182 days at 8 marks = 1,456
marks at 1d. per 20
6 1
3rd Quarter, Second Class-182 days at 8 marks = 1,456
marks at 1½d. per 20
9 1
4th Quarter, First Class-Balance at 8 marks =
marks at 2½d. per 20
...

NOTE.-Should prisoners earn maximum number of days
remission-
s. d.
The gratuity for six months' sentence (with special
gratuity) would be
5 8
A twelve-months' sentence gratuity
9 5
An eighteen-months' ditto
13 3
A two-years' ditto
17 2
Prisoners undergoing sentences of six months and under
twelve may be recommended for a special gratuity of 2s. 6d.
for exemplary conduct during their sentences.

Defining the Middle Line of Portion of the Line of Railway
from the Main Line of the Waitaki-Bluff Railway to
Oteramika and Toitois (Appleby Section).

(L.S.) WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS the line of railway from the main line of the
Waitaki-Bluff Railway to Oteramika and Toitois is one
of the railways specified in the Schedule to "The Railways
Authorization Act, 1881," and which Act is, in the fifth
section thereof, declared to be a special Act authorizing the
construction of such railway; and the same is unfinished, and
it has been determined to construct and maintain a portion
of such railway:

Now, therefore, I, William Francis Drummond Jervois, the
Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in exercise and in
pursuance of the powers and authorities conferred on me by the
aforesaid section five of "The Railways Authorization Act, 1881,"
and by sections one hundred and twenty-nine and one hundred
and thirty of "The Public Works Act, 1882," and in exercise of
every other power and authority in anywise enabling me in that
behalf, do hereby proclaim and declare that the middle line of
the said portion of the said railway shall be from a point on
the Waitaki-Bluff Railway about three hundred and thirty
links distant in a north-westerly direction from the north-
western corner of Section number two, Block three, In-
vercargill Hundred, to a point in railway reserve about
three hundred and fifty links distant north-west from the
south-east corner of Section number sixteen, Block twenty-
two, Invercargill Hundred, as defined and set forth in the
Schedule hereto. The said middle line and the land through
which the same passes are set forth in the map and plan
marked P.W.D. 9947, and authenticated for the purposes of
this Proclamation by the signature of the Honourable Walter

Woods Johnston, the Minister for Public Works, and which
said map and plan is deposited in the office of the Registrar of
the Supreme Court at Invercargill, in the Provincial District
of Otago.

SCHEDULE.

COMMENCING at a point on the Invercargill to Bluff portion of
the Waitaki-Bluff Railway, main line, about 330 links distant
in a north-westerly direction from the north-western corner of
Section No. 2, Block III., Invercargill Hundred, and proceeding
thence in a south-easterly direction for a distance of three miles
or thereabouts, passing in, into, through, or over the following
lands, viz.: Sections Nos. 2 and 3, Block III., Invercargill Hun-
dred; Sections Nos. 38, 39, 40, and 41, Block II., Kilbrony, being
subdivision of Section No. 4, Block III., Invercargill Hundred;
Section No. 1, Block I., Seaward Bush Township and Railway
Reserve; and terminating at a point in said reserve about 350
links distant in a north-westerly direction from the south-eastern
corner of Section No. 16, Block XXII., Invercargill Hundred ;
all within the Provincial District of Otago, Colony of New
Zealand; including all adjoining and intervening places, lands,
roads, reserves, streams, and watercourses; in the manner de-
lineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 9947, which plan is signed
by the Hon. Walter Woods Johnston, Minister for Public Works,
and deposited in the office of the Registrar of the Supreme
Court at Invercargill, in the said provincial district; the total
length of the said middle line being three miles or thereabouts.

Given under the hand of His Excellency Sir William
Francis Drummond Jervois, Lieutenant-General in
Her Majesty's Army, Knight Grand Cross of the
Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and
Saint George, Companion of the Most Honourable
Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-
Chief in and over Her Majesty's Colony of New
Zealand and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of
the same; and issued under the Seal of the said
Colony, at the Government House, at Auckland,
this twenty-fifth day of April, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three.

WALTER W. JOHNSTON,
Minister for Public Works.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Native Land taken for Great North Road, Hukerenui and
Kawakawa Survey Districts, Provincial District of Auck-
land, North Island.

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this second day of
April, 1883.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by
"The Public Works Act, 1882," and of all other powers in
anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency Sir
William Francis Drummond Jervois, the Governor of the
Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of
the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order
that the Government work known as the Great North Road
shall and may be constructed on or through the several parcels
of land more particularly described in the Schedule hereto, and
delineated in the plan marked P.W.D. 9921, deposited in the
office of the Minister for Public Works at Wellington, in the
Provincial District of Wellington, in the said colony.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land situate in the Survey Districts of Kawa-
kawa and Hukerenui, Provincial District of Auckland, being a
road-line, 1 chain wide, running in a southerly direction for
a distance of 318 chains or thereabouts from a point on the
Ruapekapeka Road distant 320 links or thereabouts from the
south-eastern angle of the Kawakawa Coal Company's ground
to the north-western boundary of the Hukerenui Block, except-
ing that portion of the aforesaid road which traverses the Edu-
cation Reserve, near the Native village of Waiomio; as the same
is delineated upon the plan marked P.W.D. 9921, deposited in
the office of the Minister for Public Works at Wellington, in
the Provincial District of Wellington.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.